Hot Beauty & Style How-Tos
How To: Create a neutral everyday makeup look with lush lashes
As a general rule of thumb, when you wear makeup it's not supposed to look like you're really wearing makeup, but simply like you're a more awake and youthful version of yourself. Makeup is there to flatter, not to hide.
How To: Put Your Hair Up In A Cute Bun
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How To: Create a voluminous hair bump hairstyle
We think this hairstyle is how Snooki originally intended her hair bump to look like...before she added in seven Bump Its and a thousand tons of hairspray.
How To: Create long, loose curls using hair extensions
There is nigh a celebrity who walks the red carpet without long, luscious locks her mama didn't give her. Most of Hollywood's young and beautiful starlets are genetically gifted, but that doesn't mean they don't need a little help in the makeup and hairstyling department, too.
How To: Create a gorgeous exotic Arabian princess makeup look
Usually we think that Halloween means dressing up in your spookiest, creepiest attire and scaring the living daylights out of friends and family. But you can be pretty too! Check out this makeup tutorial to learn how to create an exotic Arabian princess makeup look.
How To: Create a bold turquoise and black eye makeup look
Sometimes it's liberating to ditch the neutrals for a day and truly dress to impress - or, in this case, shock. Create an eye-opening look by checking out this makeup tutorial.
How To: Create a pretty ribbon twist updo for homecoming
Want to look like a mesmerizing fairy/storybook princess on prom night or homecoming? If so, then we've got the perfect hair tutorial for you.
How To: Prevent eyeliner from smudging with tips
Makeup always looks good when it's freshly applied. The problem, however, is that most of us apply that makeup in the morning and don't get back until 7 at night, meaning it's been on for about 12 hours. And if you happen to have a date or need to go out that night, your makeup is probably looking more Courtney Love than Camilla Belle.
How To: Create flame embellished nails for fall
Fall is so full of natural beauty. From the colorful, crispy leaves to that perfect dollop of whipped creap atop your pumpkin spice latte, there's so much to see and to savor.
How To: Create a simple and glamorous daytime makeup look
Daytime makeup doesn't have to be blah. In fact, isn't the point of wearing makeup so you can show off your gorgeous features? Yeah, we thought so too.
How To: Create Angelina Jolie's signature cat eyes and perfect skin
If you think about it, beauty of all beauties Angelina Jolie doesn't actually wear that many beauty products. Even when she's rubbing elbows with George Clooney at the Cannes Film Festival she's usually going with nothing more than clean, flawless skin, cat eyeliner, and pale lips.
How To: Create a high dowager princess bun for holiday parties
A dowager bun may not sound familiar to you, but you've probably seen more than a handful at fancy holiday parties and soirees. Dowagers are the widows of deceased landholder husbands. But while this is the grim origin of dowagers and "uptight" and high dowager buns, today the dowager bun is more an elegant statement than anything else.
How To: Create the perfect curly hairstyle with twist-flex rod curlers
If you're looking for a curly hairstyle that doesn't use traditional hair rollers, then twist-flex rods is your solution. Flexi-rod curlers allow you to achieve different types of curls, like spiral curls and loose curls, depending on the size of the twistable, flexible rods. This takes some work, but the results are amazing!
How To: Shave Your Pubic Area
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How To: Use organic Afterglow Cosmetics for a makeup look inspired by Jessica Alba
If you're looking for the newest Jessica Alba look, then Dulce Candy can give you some help. Afterglow Cosmetics gave her a bunch of new organic cosmetics to test out, and she made this makeup tutorial on a great "saga eyes" look inspired by Alba. Check it out… try it out!
How To: Create a shocking purple and blue winged eyeliner look
Winged eyeliner is a makeup look that girls either love or don't attempt to try because it seems to hard. As habitual winged eyeliner wearers Lauren Conrad and Blake Lively prove, winged eyeliner is extremely sexy and also elongates and brightens your eyes.
How To: Create Kim Kardashian's soft winged smoky eyes
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian definitely knows she's got sex appeal in her deck of cards. Which is why, if you've ever paid attention to her on the red carpet, she's almost always wearing a smoky eye and nude lip combo. We're talking 9 times out of 10.
How To: Create a Megan Fox inspired sultry makeup look
We can't promise you'll get mistaken for Megan Fox after you complete this makeup look, but we can guarantee you'll get more than a few swoony stares when you're walking down the street.
How To: Fake full, luscious Angelina Jolie lips with makeup
Let's face it, gals: Not all of us were born with those covetable beestung Angelina Jolie lips. In fact, most of us have average sized lips or even thin lips.
How To: Trim your beard from 3" to 1/2"
November is officially Movember, a month that brings light to men's health issues, especially prostate cancer. "Mo" is the Australian slang for mustache, which is appropriate because during November the quest of Movember is to have guys lay off the shaving for a month and grow mustaches to spread awareness.
How To: Create an easy and quick hairstyle with a bohemian headband
Headbands are one of our favorite accessories to wear because they offer comfort, fashion, and practicality all in one. Just ask Blair Waldorf, who does all of her scheming and catty confrontations with nigh a hair out of place.
How To: Make a Tory Burch inspired safety pin charm
If you follow designer Tory Burch then you probably know that her high class and trendy clothing and accessories are also extremely high priced, costing upwards of thousands of dollars.
How To: Create Lauren Conrad's signature winged eyeliner look
Lauren Conrad may be labeled by the rest of the world as the cute as a button girl next door, but in some ways she takes her makeup to a more pin up realm than keeping it minimal and modern.
How To: Create an elegant and classic low rolled bun with a flower
Got a wedding to attend? Got a wedding of your own coming up? Then you need to not only make sure not only that your makeup matches the elegant occasion, but also your hair. Rather than going with done and done again high buns, why not create this classic low rolled bun?
How To: Create a tropical makeup look with lime and green eyes and pink lips
It may be only 20 degrees and snowing outside, but that doesn't mean your face has to look similarly gloomy and dull. Bring some sun from the tropics back home by wearing it on your face.
How To: Create electric smoky blue eyes and glitter "tears"
Need an outrageous and beautiful look for Halloween or attending one of Ke$ha's concerts soon? Then you'll definitely need to amp up your makeup game with lots of color and a Claire's store worth of glitter.
How To: Create a Guy Fawkes / V for Vendetta mask with makeup
Guy Fawkes Day is one of the biggest holidays in the UK, functioning as sort of a combination of the 4th of July and Halloween. One of it's distinctive elements is traditional masks like the one Guy Fawkes supposedly wore (also worn by V in V For Vendetta). If you want to get into the spirit of the holiday for Halloween or actual Guy Fawkes Day (Nov. 5), watch this video to learn how to apply a sexy Guy Fawkes mask makeup look.
How To: Create the makeup look Pink rocks in her music video for "Raise your Glass"
Not everyone has the aplomb to stage name themselves after a color and keep their hair that color forever, but Pink has done just that. If you want to imitate her remarkable good looks without the dye job, watch this video to learn how to do your makeup like hers in the music video for her song "Raise Your Glass".
How To: Create Taylor Swift inspired loose curls
You may think that Taylor Swift wakes up every day with her naturally curly hair in perfect shape, without a single hair out of place, but even as genetically blessed as she is, she still needs a team of hairstylists to fix her strands up in the morning.
How To: Create a purple and silver eye look for light brown and hazel eyes
Just as a cute A-line skirt looks good on your friend but somehow not so fetching on you, or a blaze looks like it was made to fit your shoulders whereas it looks baggy and untailored on your friend, eyeshadow colors look different on every girl depending on her eye color.
How To: Do a burlesque / cabaret long wavy hairstyle
Burlesque is enjoying something of a boom in popularity in American cities, and with that burlesque hair will hopefully come back into fashion. Watch this video to learn how to give yourself a simple, elegant burlesque / cabaret hair style that will wow people.
How To: Change your scarf into a big hair bow
When it comes to Gossip Girl Blair Waldorf's wardrobe, big hair bows come only second to hairbands for hair accessories. But you don't need to purchase a bunch of hairbands with big bows on top of them to stay on top of the trend.
How To: Give yourself a fall look with a Thanksgiving nail art desgin
Celebrate the Thanksgiving holidays in style! This tutorial shows you how to create an autumn style manicure. You will need base and top coat, nude polish, nail polishes in golden yellow, red, orange, brown, mid-tone green, dark green and red, orange and yellow nail rhinestones.
How To: Wax a handlebar mustache step by step
November is also known as Movember, the month of mustache growing, trimming, and showing off. So toss that razor for a few weeks (and - yay! - get some more sleep in the mornings) and grow yourself a nice shaggy beard.
How To: Grow a Moustache in Movember for Men's Cancer Awareness
Movember is here, and if you haven't already started growing your moustache, then you still have time. Movember takes place during the entire month of November, and if you haven't figured it out quite yet, it is a portmanteau of the words moustache and November.
How To: Layer clothing so you'll stay warm and look chic
Layering becomes a necessary skill to know during the fall and winter, when it's nigh impossible to get away with wearing just your favorite dress or t-shirt and nothing else.
How To: Style simple, effortless waves with four tips
First things first, ladies: You should avoid any type of heat styling when you can, since heat - duh! - ruins your strands and makes them weak and brittle, leading to split ends and just overall tumbleweed texture, which is not so pretty.
How To: Create simple and quick brown smoky eyes
Every girl needs a "go-to" recipe, as it were, for looking good. For every girl this "go-to" is different: One gal may fall back to a red lip and neutral eyes when she wants to look hot with minimal effort, while another may work some magic with her smudge brush to create the perfect smoky eye.
How To: Make a latex facial prosthetic for Halloween
If you want to create the type of makeup look where the makeup IS the costume for Halloween, then look no further than this video. You'll be guided step by step through creating a facial prosthetic from latex. This prosthetic can be shaped any way you want to form rotting flesh for a zombie costume, scars and wounds, even bullet holes.
How To: Make DIY Bay Rum aftershave
Bay Rum is one of the most sought-after varieties of aftershave, and is usually made via a complex process requiring much equipment. It need not be, however. Watch this video to learn how to make your own Bay Rum aftershave at home quickly and easily.